Inconvenient Woman

When I was a child
Daddy drank
I was inconvenient
I learned reading was my
Great escape
Pillows piled in a closet
Hidden from the storm.

I wasn't there, my mom said
She was right.
I was inconvenient
I rode my magic carpet
To secret gardens,
Deep forests and
Other lives.

When Daddy left
And Papa came,
Three younger brothers
Took the stage
With fishing poles,
Quads and hunting.
I was inconvenient.
Books stayed, and I wasn't there.

Soon boys arrived in other forms
I escaped to a magical school
Still, books stayed.
Learning was my transport
Wedding was my fate.
I married, had twins
I was inconvenient
And missed the hippie life
I'd dreamed about.

Escape spiraled into
Sex, drugs and disipation
I was inconvenient
But books stayed.
Boys stayed
So I wed.

Booze marred my life
Men marred my life
I was inconvenient
I made my sons feel inconvenient
Rough years insued
Until...

Out of the wreckage
One man emerged
Making sense of the senseless
Bringing order, bringing love
But MS brought me low
And kids grew up
Still, I was an inconvenient woman

Then, wonder of wonder!
Grandkids turned the world
Upright.
Books returned, along with chaos
Love reigned.